Charlie Angus – NDP McGill

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Housing Policy

Work with other levels of government to provide local solutions to the housing crisis
Create a National Low Income Housing Benefit and an Affordable Housing Initiative Credit
More funding for existing and new social housing
Promote co-operative housing
Commit to ending homelessness
Expand the Homelessness Partnering Strategy

Indigenous Policy

Create an ombudsperson position for indigenous children
Would have an independent audit and investigation into Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada and Health Canada’s indigenous programs
Work with the PBO and Indigenous leadership to try and have indigenous people take more control over their services
Actually respect s.35 of the charter and adopt UNDRIP
Make the government more accountable to indigenous people in terms of indigenous affairs

Environmental Policy

Labour Policy

Increase the max Working Income Tax Benefit to $1000 & make it available to full-time workers
Raise federal minimum wage to $15/hour, and index it to inflation
Ensuring federal assistance to business creates and preserves jobs in Canada
Repeal Bill C-27 to protect pensions
Go after corporate tax havens
Reform Canada’s labour laws, include new anti-scab legislation
Reform and expand Canada’s skills development programs
Lower the required hours for EI eligibility to 360
Expand parental benefits to 70% of salary up to the maximum insurable earnings as well as lower the eligibility requirements
Pharmacare

Urban Policy

Make housing a right
Improve public transit and intercity transportation
Improve environmental standards for construction, fight urban sprawl
Develop local food security strategies to fight hunger
Provide better funding for ESL classes, employment assistance, and other services for new Canadians
Make cities more accessible for individuals with disabilities
Better fund science and academic research
Eliminate tuition for post-secondary education
Set standards for mental health and sexual assault policies
Eliminate loan interest on student loans
Provide more funding for PSSSP for indigenous students
Ensure access to high speed internet and bringing costs down
Create a resale right for artists, enabling them to collect royalties from resale of their works, and income tax averaging for artists
Create a Neighbourhood Ownership Program and Fund to set up democratically governed neighbourhood corporations
Community Benefits Agreements
Establish new governance frameworks for our cities to give them more of a say in policies that impact them

Party Policy

Ensure communication between the party and the riding associations through on the ground organizers and regional councils
Create gender balanced, permanent, deliberative, and democratically elected policy development bodies much like citizens’ assemblies
Commit to frequent issue based tours to different parts of the country in order to remain connected with the grassroots
Help riding associations fundraise
Respect Quebec
Work towards reconciliation via permanent party structures to ensure Indigenous voice are always heard

Economic Policy

Give workers of a closing business the right to purchase their business and restructure it as a worker co-operative
Provide worker co-operatives with capital funding to make up for the lack of EI
Implement social purchasing for government entities
Invest in the Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund
Create a Community Economic Development Tax Credit to stimulate locally owned and administered finance
Harmonize the federal and provincial legislation and regulations around co-operatives
Support innovative new co-operative forms
Create a new Co-operative Development Initiative to provide technical assistance, small capital loans, and business support to co-operatives through the regional development agencies

For more information please visit http://www.charlieangusndp.ca/